Nimble Tongues

Steven G. Kellman is author of The RestlessIlan Stavans: Outsider on the Inside (Purdue); Redemption: The Life ofHenry Roth (Norton); The Translingual Imagination (Nebraska); ThePlague: Fiction and Resistance (Twayne); Loving Reading: Erotics of theText (Archon); and The Self-Begetting Novel (Columbia). He edited SwitchingLanguages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft (Nebraska); UnderWords:Perspectives on DeLillo's Underworld (Delaware); Torpid Smoke: Storiesof Vladimir Nabokov (Rodopi); and Leslie Fiedler and American Culture(Delaware). A widely published critic and essayist, Kellman served four terms on the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle and received itscoveted Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. He has taught atTel-Aviv University, the University of California campuses at Irvine and Berkeley, Tbilisi State University, and the University of Sofia. He is professor of comparative literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Preface Does Translingualism Matter? Writer Speaks with Forked Tongue: Interlingual Predicaments Promiscuous Tongues: Erotics of Translingualism and Translation Writing South and North: Ariel Dorfman's Linguistic Ambidexterity Alien Autographs: How Translators Make Their Marks Translingual Memoirs of the New: American Immigration Incubus and the Esperanto Movie Industry An Italian in English: The Translingual Case of Francesca Marciano Hugo Hamilton's Language War Jhumpa Lahiri Goes Italian Linguaphobia and Its Resistance in America Omnilingual Aspirations: The Case of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Glossary Works Cited Index

"A broad overview of vital topics in the growing field of literary translingualism is long overdue. Nimble Tongues offers a superb introduction to the cultural, social, and political dimensions of writing across languages, drawing on a fascinating array of authors and works. In an age of mass migration, Nimble Tongues demonstrates how linguistic choice serves as an indispensable tool for literary analysis."